Nonfiction audiobooks

Trying to Get to Heaven - Abridged

By: Dixie Carter

Narrated by: Dixie Carter

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dixie Carter has an opinion on just about everything--from the inside scoop on plastic surgery to the importance of etiquette and grooming, from the value of the family to the courage to be yourself.

Trying to Get to Heaven: Opinions of a Tennessee Talker is one long conversation that you never want to end. Read more

Live Rich - Abridged

By: Barry Kaye

Narrated by: Barry Kaye

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Live life to the fullest is the message of Live Rich, an audio that addresses every person's desire for self-respect, a greater understanding of life, motivation, and creativity— as well as financial, personal, and romantic success. Freeing ourselves from the controlling influence of our fears can set the stage for a wealth of new... Read more

Hit and Run - Abridged

By: Nancy Griffin

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hit and Run tells the improbable and often hilarious story of how two Hollywood film packagers went on a campaign to reinvent themselves as studio executives -- at Sony's expense. Veteran reporters Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters chronicle the rise of Jon Peters, a former hairdresser, seventh-grade dropout, and juvenile delinquent, and his... Read more

Inside the NRA - Abridged

By: Jack Anderson

Narrated by: Jack Anderson

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A chilling examination of the NRA and its powerful influence on America.In 1996, deaths by gun violence in the United States totaled roughly 14,000. With so many casualties— along with an astounding rise of armed militias and the discovery of huge caches of weapons stockpiled in private residences— Americans were forced... Read more

Talk Your Way to Success - Abridged

By: Lilyan Wilder

Narrated by: Lilyan Wilder

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

America's foremost speech consultant shares her secrets for communicating more effectively.
Lilyan Wilder has coached politicians, executives and celebrities such as George Bush, Oprah Winfrey and Charles Osgood to become better speakers. Now Wilder provides you with the same key to success -- effective communication -- as her more famous... Read more

Frank Sinatra, My Father - Abridged

By: Nancy Sinatra

Narrated by: Nancy Sinatra

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Frank Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the twentieth century, with more than 100 charted songs and a successful film career, as well as the recipient of an Academy Award and nine Grammys. As the icon to millions of fans around the world, Sinatra was the subject of countless tabloid stories as well as several unauthorized... Read more

Sacred Hoops - Abridged

By: Phil Jackson & Hugh Delehanty

Narrated by: Phil Jackson

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball." -- Phil Jackson

One of the most successful coaches in NBA history, Chicago Bulls head coach Phil Jackson provides an inside look at the higher wisdom of teamwork with Sacred Hoops -- Jackson's philosophy of mindful basketball and his lifelong quest... Read more

The Moral Compass - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: William J. Bennett

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Moral Compass is the inspiring and instructive companion volume to William J. Bennett's bestselling work, The Book of Virtues, offering many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history.

Organized by the stages along life's journey, these stories and poems serve as... Read more

Life After Death - Abridged

By: Mary T. Browne

Narrated by: Mary T. Browne

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the #1 bestselling tradition of Embraced By the Light...an inspiring journey into the spirit world.

An end and a beginning...

For more than 12 years, world-renowned psychic and spiritual healer Mary T. Browne has drawn on her visions of the other side and her communications with spirit teachers there to help clients all over the world. Now she... Read more

Colin Powell - Abridged

By: Colin Powell

Narrated by: Colin Powell

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The son of Jamaican immigrants, Colin Powell became one of the most influential Americans of the last century. In this dramatic series of interviews, General Powell describes his ascent from the ROTC to four-star general and eventually to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and mastermind of Desert Storm. He discusses his assignments in... Read more

Hope for the Universal Human

By: Barbara Marx Hubbard

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Exciting developments are taking place in human evolution. Past, present and future point toward tremendous leaps in our awareness and co-creative capacity. And Barbara Marx Hubbard is a scout on the edge of evolution, pointing the way and cheering us on. Read more

Remembering Dr. Hamilton Holmes

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Produced by MacNeil-Lehrer Productions, this is an interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault about her friend, Dr. Hamilton Holmes, who accompanied Charlayne as they became the first two African-Americans to attend the University of Georgia. Read more

Decoding Your Dreams

By: Gayle Delaney

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms & Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Why are dreams important? How can we remember more of our dreams, or use the dreams we remember to inform our waking life? Through years of research and dream analysis, Dr. Delaney has developed a "dream interview" technique that truly gives us the keys to decoding our own dreams. Read more

So Far…

By: Kelsey Grammer

Narrated by: Kelsey Grammer

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than twenty years, Kelsey Grammar played the brilliant but fussy psychiatrist Frasier Crane, first on Cheers, then on the wildly successful spinoff, Frasier. During those two decades, Grammer received 17 Emmy nominations, winning four as the psychiatrist-turned-radio host and another one for providing the voice of Sideshow Bob on yet... Read more

Casino - Abridged

By: Nicholas Pileggi

Narrated by: Ken Weitzman, Fred Neumann & Ron Leibman

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Love, greed and betrayal in the Las Vegas mob.

From Nicholas Pileggi, author of the bestselling Wiseguy -- the #1 bestseller that later became the hit movie Goodfellas -- comes this brilliantly told tale of love, marriage, adultery, murder and revenge Mafia-style, the true story of how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over the... Read more

A Good Life - Abridged

By: Ben Bradlee

Narrated by: Ben Bradlee

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic New York Times bestselling memoir by legendary Executive Editor of The Washington Post Ben Bradlee—with a new foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and an afterword by Sally Quinn.

The most important, glamorous, and famous newspaperman of modern times traces his path from Harvard to the battles of the South Pacific to the... Read more

Charles Kuralt's America - Abridged

By: Charles Kuralt

Narrated by: Charles Kuralt

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!

All New Journeys From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of A Life On The Road
I keep thinking I will find something wonderful just around the bend.
Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our... Read more

Mindhunter - Abridged

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: John E. Douglas

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a Netflix original series

Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals.

In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind... Read more

Rebound - Abridged

By: Bob Greene

Narrated by: Bob Greene

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Beginning with the day Jordans father was murdered, & stretching through a 2-year odyssey across the American landscape, Rebound is the story of the worlds most famous athletes personal journey in search of himself. This is the story of a man who seemingly had everything the world could offer, & then, in pain, left it behind in an effort... Read more

Visions for the 21st Century - Abridged

By: Carl Sagan

Narrated by: Carl Sagan

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This recording features the highlights of this historic 1995 event sponsored by the Temple of Understanding and includes a talk by the late cosmologist Carl Sagan. Visions for the 21st Century was a powerful forum for religious leaders, diplomats, non-governmental organizations, and educators to present their visions for the next century. The... Read more

Appreciating Emotional Intelligence

By: Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Intelligence is more than IQ. Goleman demonstrates how our view of human intelligence is far too narrow and does not take into consideration what he calls “emotional intelligence.” This dialogue provides solid advice about handling the pitfalls of emotionality and expands our understanding of how we learn. Read more

Roping the Sacred Cows: Learning to Question Authority

By: Joel Kramer & Diana Alstad

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This moment in history, says Joel Kramer, is a historical crossroads when "the moral order, the glue that has held civilizations together, begins to unravel"--a time to escape authoritarian constraints and move into self-trust and creativity. Read more

A Native American Dream

By: Russell Means

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Means recalls memories of his grandfather and his extended Native American family as well as the recovery of personal identity and pride. He shares what he has learned about history, oppression, and freedom, and gives insights into the current political story, how history is repeating itself in modern America and what still needs to happen. Read more

Life!

By: Louise Hay

Narrated by: Louise Hay

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author, metaphysical lecturer, and teacher brings you her inspirational audio program, Life!, in which she deals with growing up, relationships, work, spirituality, our elder years, death . . . and many of the problems, fears and challenges that these passages bring. Read more